What is blank verse ?

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1. What is the title to Milton’s blank-verse epic that assimilates and critiques the epic tradition ?

   A. L’Allegro B. Lycidas C. Paradise Lost D. The Divine Comedy...

2. Identify the writer who first used blank verse in English poetry ?

   A. Sir Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare C. Earl of Surrey D. Milton...

3. Blank verse refers to which of the following ?

   A. Prose B. Unrhymed iambic pentameter C. Rhyming verse D. Rhyming couplets...

4. What the term Blank Verse refers_____________?

   A. having no rhyming end B. having no rhythmic flow C. having no significance D. having no blanks in the verse...

5. Who was the first to use blank verse ?

   A. Thomas Wyatt B. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey C. Sir Thomas more D. None of the above Submitted by: Lubna shahzadi...

6. A verse form using stanza of eight lines, each with eleven syllables, is known as ?

   A. Spenserian Stanza B. Ballad C. Ottava Rima D. Rhyme Royal...

7. In verse, “meter” refers to which of the following ?

   A. The length of a written line B. The measured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables C. The height of the stage D. The number of words in a line...

8. What form of verse is usually sung and details a dramatic or exciting episode ?

   A. An ode B. An elegy C. An epitaph D. A ballad...

9. Which of the following best defines alliterative verse ?

   A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion...

10. What is the verse form of Marie de France’s Lanval ?

    A. Dactylic pentameter B. Octosyllabic couplets C. Heroic couplets D. Clerihew...